From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Li Yang" <LeoLi@freescale.com>,
"Wood Scott-B07421" <scottwood@freescale.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: The usage of compatible 'simple-bus'
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:26:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40901061926o6858602em60281a1e39daa0c2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107020006.GD13731@yookeroo.seuss>
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, David Gibson
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> As Grant says, you're thinking about what drivers will do with things
> rather than what the actual hardware setup is, which is what the
> device tree should describe.
>
> I see two sensible options for this situation:
> - Move the MDIO node to outside the gianfar MAC node. I think
> this is already done on some boards with gianfar?
mpc5200 FEC is another example of this.
> - Explicitly add the gianfar device to the list of things to
> scan for of_platform subdevices.
Ack. I 100% agree.
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-07 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 10:27 The usage of compatible 'simple-bus' Li Yang
2009-01-05 19:20 ` Scott Wood
2009-01-06 1:43 ` David Gibson
2009-01-06 5:46 ` Li Yang
2009-01-06 6:35 ` Grant Likely
2009-01-06 7:01 ` Li Yang
2009-01-07 2:00 ` David Gibson
2009-01-07 3:26 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2009-01-07 3:51 ` Li Yang
2009-01-07 15:25 ` Scott Wood
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